Does phpMyAdmin support MySQL 4.1 and 5.0?
phpMyAdmin provides limited support for MySQL 4.1. That means that you can neither assign character sets to a table or field on create nor change the (automatically) assigned character set. When compiling php, we strongly recommend that you manually link it to a MySQL 4.1 client library since the one that is currently bundled with php is rather old and might cause problems. MySQL 5 is not yet supported.